UNDERSTANDING IT AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: DEVELOPMENT AND ILLUSTRATION OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 42-50

  Barrett, Michael ^a   Sahay, Sundeep ^a   Walsham, Geoff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; KEY FACTORS; SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0007173670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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